WEBVTT - Episode 108: Akira 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:12.000 Hello, and welcome to another edition of Nerdificent. I am 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:14.960 one half of your host, Danny Fernandez, sitting across the 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.400 virtual world from me. If you want the way, holding 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:23.320 it down, doing it big, all the above, I can 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.200 see you when you're like four K or whatever. Oh yeah, 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.880 now this is four K. I was just complaining to 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:31.920 Joel about this. Yesterday. I was shooting an audition and 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.720 I actually have to cannon see one D right now. 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.200 This one is technically the studio one for Super Punch, 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:38.680 and the one over there is the one they got 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.040 me for my house. I tried to shoot an audition. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.920 It knocked over and I broke the l C D 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:48.239 on A three thousand. Yeah, so I'm rare. I was 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.839 very I was who if you I'm It was so 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:56.120 good that I rewatched Ada after that because I was 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.760 in a space where I was so mad, and by 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:00.840 the end of Acuta, I was like, well, nothing matters, 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.000 nothing is real, Material possessions don't matter. All that matters 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.880 is friendship and the ones we hold dear. But yeah, 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.000 it's it's one of those things where it's like I'll 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.400 get it fixed, but we're in a time where we 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.360 just can't go to a camera repair shop. Like if 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.480 it was any other time I just today, i'd go 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.040 to B NH, hand it to him and then pick 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.280 it up when when it's ready. But now we're in 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.920 a time where it's like that camera's broken until I 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.360 don't know right right, I still feel like you could 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.959 do a drop off and just like put it on 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:36.479 your doorstep or something and hope for the best. Yeah, 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.759 this that's the one. It's so funny because I feel 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.440 like this is the one time I really relate to you, Danny, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.480 because this and that's the only thing I'm type about 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.759 is my electronics, where it's like I don't like knowing 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:48.800 that it's broken. I need everything to be fixed so 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.840 when I need to use it, it's ready. If it's 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:52.960 if it's broken, I don't care. I don't care that 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.120 I have this one and it's perfect for right now 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.360 and streaming and that we're probably who knows when we're 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.320 going to be in the studio. I need the other 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.320 one ready to go, and I was so ready to 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:07.440 do cooking streams whatever. I've been talking too much. I 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:12.040 think we should introduce our guest, uh man friend. We've 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.880 known each other for so long, uh we've we've who 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.119 I think it's been. It's five years this month, Yeah, 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.840 five years this month, holding it down. I mean you 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.800 may have you've that that voice you here, you've heard everywhere. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.280 You've heard it in Final Fantasy seven remake, You've heard 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.280 it in Sailor Moon, You've heard her on previous episodes. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:35.400 You know, hear her in so many video games. You know, 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.240 she is starting to become one of the staple v 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.760 A s that you here in a game and you're like, oh, oh, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.840 I know that voice. Uh, it is none other than 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:50.079 the Erica Chi. How you doing. Hi. It's so good 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:51.760 to get to chat with you all. Thank you so 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.160 much for inviting me for this, and I get to 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.440 talk about one of my very favorite things in the world, 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:03.080 my aesthetic, my sort of cool surreal identity, cyberpunk. Thank you. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.480 Oh yeah. Now this is a solid anime because it 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.760 changed how anime was viewed in America. It came out 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:18.200 January one one, just a month before I came into 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.160 this world, a month before I started walking the Earth. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.280 It's it's almost like this this was my red carpet, 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:29.560 my red motorcycle to ride into this world. But yeah, 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.680 and it's true. It was like a real, real cultural 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:37.320 ambassador for uh all Japanese culture to the United States, 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.960 which which is which is in some ways very terrifying. 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:45.920 But yeah, it's eight. But then also the manga had 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:51.760 started releasing in nineteen two, six years prior. Um And 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:53.880 I don't know, like how how deep do I was 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.040 only deep because I even want to talk about because 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.640 so much to say, because I read, I've read through 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:04.600 all the manga. I have it um uh And but 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.080 that was a little while ago. I think most folks 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:11.280 are familiar with the movie from But then also everybody, 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.080 whether they know it or not, is familiar with the 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:17.240 cultural context it provided to cyberpunk to sci fi too, 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.960 like just the look of films since then. Oh yeah, 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.240 and a lot of animation to like a lot of 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:29.000 other um animated properties pay tribute to it a ton 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.640 on top of the I was gonna stay on top 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.560 of people like Jordan peel Ty, what td um, you know, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:40.160 Stephen Universe, like all those saying that it heavily influenced them. 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.520 It's very interesting too, like if if we just start 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.160 from the influence of the manga, if you read through 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.640 the manga, which is gorgeous, the line work is like 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.359 there are some some line work because there, um here's 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.599 there's so much to you, uh talk influence line but 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.840 first we'll talk about the line work that is just 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.159 out of this world. And there's just some designs of 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.840 the landscape in the cities where you can totally see 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.920 how it might have influenced Toriyama once he gets to 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.159 the sand saga, because it's like it very much has 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:16.159 that same line work, especially like the car design, which 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.480 I love Toriyama's design on cars. I love the short 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:23.520 stocky cars. But even someone pointed out on Twitter and 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.360 then I went and checked and even though this person 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.280 was like one of those like nerd historians, so they 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:35.200 were on it. Uh that Akira. When Akira released the 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:42.360 movie the January one eight and September seven is when 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:47.120 Vegeta was introduced. So uh so when you look at Tetsuo, 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:52.000 the like short stocky always in someone's shadow, you know, 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:57.120 big big forehead, short king, and you look at the geta, 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.040 you're like, oh, I could see I can see how 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.479 you can see that in that shouldn't be like oh yeah, 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.760 I'm a I think this person would be perfect to 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.120 counter Goku. Yeah, tom it was such an influence on 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:13.400 the entire industry, and like Toyama, he did it almost 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.360 all him himself, and he looked, I just the he 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:21.640 had released Domo before this, which was an award winning 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.720 comic again sort of like touching on the themes of 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:31.560 like psychic you know, psychic powers and the Little Girl writers. Yeah, 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.640 and it's it's so it's so bonkers, like the detailing 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.440 in it, like every single window in the building. And 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:43.080 it was just him, although fun trivia effect um one 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.479 of the he did get assistants um for some of 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.400 the line work and some of and some of the 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:52.760 I think for the marvel editions for uh from Satsikon, 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:57.839 who is legendary anime director. He didn't Godfathers in Perfect 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.280 Blue and Millennium Actress, and so it's so cool when 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.800 you're like, oh, these like cool selmis worked with each other. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:05.720 I want to touch on the plot, but I want 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.200 to touch on something fun about the plot. And what's 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.000 something o Tomo he himself said, which if you get 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.640 the Akiday Anniversary edition, you get to have this interview 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.360 when he was interviewed right after the movie about Akida, 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.200 and it's it's very interesting because this movie that is 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:28.000 so influential. The base of his story of Akida is 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:32.160 uh based off of Tetsugen twenty eight, which if you 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.320 don't remember, everyone remembers astro Boy, But Tetogen twenty eight 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.640 is about this little boy who controls this giant robot 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.400 numbered twenty eight actually have like a figure that's like 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.840 based off of him. But uh, he was saying like 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.520 he he was apt to do a sci fi story 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.040 a cereal because he did like short stories for us 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.720 a magazine called Weekly Young, which is like Shown and Jump, 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.600 but for older men. It's it's a target audience. Where 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.280 wanted a fifty year olds. So Show and Jump is 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:06.360 usually for young boys. And um and and I say targeted. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.800 Anyone can read it, but that's that's their target. And uh, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.720 he would do Weekly Young, and they asked him to 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.200 do a serial, and he did a lot of sci 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.600 fi stuff. So he said when he was thinking of 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.400 you know, ideas, he said, he said he wanted to 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.320 Uh he was really inspired by Astro boyd Tetsu Tetogen 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.600 twenty eight and so he uh did he wanted to 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:32.240 base it, which is why Kanetta shares the same name 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:36.440 as the little boy in Tetogen uh twenty eight, Like 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:40.760 that's the exact same name. Um and yeah yeah, and 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:46.360 that's why Akira is number twenty eight. Uh yeah, so 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.760 so so that so his this influential work was already 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.360 influenced by something and and it kind of stops there 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.720 because Tetogen twenty s got a more of a shown 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.320 in fun friendly. He also, you know, he also cited 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:04.160 one of my favorite comic artists, uh, Mobius Jendrereau, like 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.720 the French heated French sci fi um I think people 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.480 might be from Valerian was based off of one of 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.880 his comics, and it's just this beautiful detailed sci fi 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.800 landscapes and and you could definitely see it in the work. 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.160 And then also, uh so go Ishi e no relation 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.040 to my knowledge that there's these punk films, you know, 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.079 the idea of the we think of cyberpunk and we 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.600 and dystopia, and we think of like the kid motorcycle gangs, 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.800 and that comes not just from it definitely from Akida, 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.559 but there were punk films so far. It's sort of 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.559 like talking about the bossoku culture, which is sort of 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.240 like the youth bicycle gangs in Japan, and there were 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.480 these punk films that so go Ishi e did, like 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.680 Panic High School and Crazy thunder Road from the seventies 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:55.280 and eighties that um Otomo definitely cites his influence. And 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.440 so it's it's so cool to see all of the things, 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:03.800 you know, all these seminal works that are sort of 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:08.200 homages to other previous seminal works. And yeah, and we 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:13.200 can get into two, like the specific, very specific influences 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.000 that Akida had on Western culture and movie making and 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:21.800 sci fi and cyberpunk. Um. I actually, and I'm curious, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.880 and I'm sure your listeners might be able to weigh 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.880 in on this. And I don't know if you guys 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.480 know about this, but because two was when the manga 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.760 started releasing, which means he was like working on it 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.880 for a long time before that. But also in the 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:38.480 nineteen eighty two was when Blade Runner came out, And 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:43.320 there's always argument about which influence. But I don't understand 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.840 how either could have influenced each other, I think, and 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.200 I've seen sources that say, like he said he was 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.640 influenced by Blade Runner, like maybe he saw that, but Erica, 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.800 I feel like they could they could have all been 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:58.000 influenced by something going on like at that time, because 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.959 that's how when if he brought up a curetor Yama 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.160 a curatory on actually started dr Slump in nineteen eight, 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.040 so and he was drawing those cars and stuff back then. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.400 So I think that they were all kind of similarly 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.720 influenced by media, by manga that was coming out at 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.800 that time. So I think they kind of give and 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.839 take from each other. It's kind of like nowadays when 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.040 you have two movies that come out that are are 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.840 semi similar, and even though you know that they didn't 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.160 copy from each other, it was just like clearly something 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:30.319 sparked in them this idea by seeing some of the 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.839 news or things that were going on, or even um, 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.000 some of the movies that were coming out about time 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.680 travel or just like the the futuristic look. I even 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:44.040 think of that when I look at, uh, not the Incredibles, 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:48.839 but essentially the mesh between mid century modern and futuristic 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.120 type of like Jetsons type of stuff like the Jetsons 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.400 and so um, yeah, I don't I don't to answer 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.200 your question. I mean, and maybe people can weigh in, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:01.920 but I don't necessarily know if they one influenced the 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.000 other as much as they might have been watching some 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.640 of the same media that then spun off into their heads, right, 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.560 and I have. Okay, so cyberpunk is my thing. I've 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.800 done just so much consumption of it and researched into it, 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:17.959 and I think a lot about it. Um. One reason 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.920 is because I am uh Asian American, I'm Chinese Japanese, 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:28.760 and it's cyberpunk was the one place that I won't 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.240 type of genre I saw growing up that was this 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:36.920 mix of Western and Eastern. So the idea of sort 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.400 of all the sort of Eastern aesthetic and and a 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.560 lot of themes sort of couching in Western terms. And 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:47.720 now it's a little there's problems with it, you know. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.360 It's it's the idea is sort of like all this 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.800 Asian aesthetic and sort of like Asian culture, and like 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.360 there's there's why are there so many Japanese signs around 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.040 if there are no Japanese people in yours? Like if 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.680 I see if I hear your cast speaking Chinese, their 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.880 damn well better be a Chinese person in it, um. 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.200 And And so now I'm seeing a lot more representation 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.160 and that like just cultural in general, which is good, 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.720 but like, yeah, it's it's and so it's interesting. I 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.040 think one thing that definitely Blade Running, you saw a 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.439 lot of uh sci fi and cyberpunk in the eighties. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:29.080 That because Japan was the world leader in technology at 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.840 the time, and you know you see this in Akoda too, 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:36.120 and that I think gave the West a lot of anxiety. Um, 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.160 the idea that in the future there'd be this dystopian 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.480 future in which Japan ran any everything in America was 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.679 no longer this world power. Um. So that's why there's 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.440 the giant geisha on the billboards in in Blade Runner, 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:56.520 because suddenly the standard of beauty is this Asian femininity 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.760 as opposed to you know, blonde, and that was like 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.760 supposed to be a little dystopian and scary to people. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:07.520 Or the idea of yeah, you know, like Marty McFly's 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.240 boss is, is this Japanese business man. You know, you 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:12.840 see a lot of sort of like j or and 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.679 like Naka Toomi. You know, yeah, I was a say that. 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:19.720 So you see it sort of in the as the 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.480 backdrop and a lot of films and and media in 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.560 the eighties in the West. But in Ocada, like I 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.840 have this huge right when they were saying, I don't 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.840 know what was maybe like ten years ago almost now. 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.480 They were gonna adapt Okada for the screens, but they 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.320 were gonna set it in Manhattan. And I was like, 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.720 let me tell you why Okada is so uniquely Japanese 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.160 a story. Um, there's so many themes that it like 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.880 a lot of japan sci fi. It comes from anxieties 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.680 about the bomb, like and it's always so called out 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:56.960 you know. It is like Japan reconciling with youth culture, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:01.000 Japan reconciling with you know, sort of the the tech boom. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.640 And I like most other things, the Americans actually make 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.480 an appearance in it. It's not in the film, but 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:12.360 in the manga. The American Navy is waiting outside of 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.440 the harbor in Tokyo and they carpet bomb the city 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.560 because they have this anxiety. They're like, oh, we're afraid 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.760 of the growing power of these Japanese children. It's better 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.080 to take them all out than to allow it to 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:28.200 be a threat to the world. Um, And like that's 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.200 you know, sort of honest. I don't know, Yeah, I 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.720 want to I want to talk about yeah, yeah, I 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.560 want to talk about that, but I will go into 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.040 the synopsis of the story. Yeah, we should explain we're 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.440 talking about about, yeah, the movie, because there there's a 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.280 lot of that, and I want to get into the 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.800 changes between the manga and the movie because there are 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:50.160 a lot All of it is very interesting. But first, 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.200 if you if you've never seen Akuda, here's how it 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.800 goes down the movie at least, and then we'll go 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.920 even further detail when we talk about the difference, because 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.760 it's like they take a lot of the you know, 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.040 components of the manga and just compressing. Yea, yeah, not 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:09.040 to not to make all of our weaves listening angry, 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.040 but I think it's safe to say most people have 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.920 seen the movie because the movie is way easier to 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.360 digest the manga series, which in its first volume is 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:23.120 three hundred pages, and and Otomo is worthy. Adomo is dropping. 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.680 It isn't like a easy, you know read where you're 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:30.640 just going through. He's like explaining and laying out delicious exposition, 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.560 and I think it's worth reading if you haven't. It 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:37.640 is pricey. I have all six volumes now and they're 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.400 about twenty bucks each, So if you do that math, 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:45.760 you're you're it's an investment. But Amazon they are shipping 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.480 them right now you know they don't delay the shipping 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.520 on the occult or there's a lot of there's a 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.480 lot of independent bookstores that you should definitely check. I 0:16:53.520 --> 0:17:00.080 mean definitely that. Yeah. I always that over it. I 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.200 haven't been a like all of my spots, like I 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:06.560 was trying to support, uh, just a quick quarantine corner Joy, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.560 which is one of my favorite restaurants out here. It's 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:13.280 a Taiwanese restaurant. They shut their doors just they said, 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.760 we'll be back after but we want to protect our employees. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.880 I was like, cool. So I've been like ordering from 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.560 Donut Fran. I've been trying to order at the local spot. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.520 And this is my personal curse on any and all 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.199 the meat heads who have been hoarding weights plates and 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.919 then trying to flip them online. I hope that you 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:33.840 get a Charlie Horse while trying to hit a pep. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:39.119 You deserve it. You deserve it, you sniveling snake. Uh, 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:44.120 but hope plateau. I hope you plateau and and just 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.840 don't understand what's going on. Seriously, it was so hard 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:52.240 to get a pull up bar. You don't even know, uh, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:56.480 but so I coulda opens and this gang led by Kanida. 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:00.159 The heroics are chas seemed to be chasing down a 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.120 rival gang called the Clowns, and they get into it. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:08.119 It gets spicy, and we see Tetsuo and kind of 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.680 have like a you know, a little brother older brother 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:15.600 back and forth oftentimes and uh. And so Tetsuo speeds 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:19.240 ahead of them to catch this last clown guy catches him, 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.040 dwinks him on the head. Uh. And then there's a 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.919 creepy old baby. Uh. Intercut with this scene is a 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.720 man who was shot with a creepy old baby, kind 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:33.600 of walking through the city streets escaping, uh, escaping being 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:37.719 chased by um, you know these dogs which are like 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.879 canines and something that blew me. It was like, you 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.600 don't see this in movies. He pops those dogs, both 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:48.720 of them, and and it's it's it's interesting, which within 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.800 like this. This is why I love being a storytell 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.080 This is why I like a creator, because it's interesting 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:59.120 because it's an introduction to like this, like being like, yeah, 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.520 this is an animated movie, but we're not pulling punches. 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:06.080 Content content warning. It is very bloody. There's a lot 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.960 of body horror, a little a little bit of you know, 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:15.440 sexual violence that never gets to this is content warning. 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.200 I was going to say, this is one of the 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:21.720 most graphic animated movies I've ever seen in my life. 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:26.239 I was rewatching it, especially like unedited. I don't know 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.439 if I remember watching it when I was younger, when 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.760 it was edited. I don't know, probably, but when you 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:35.600 were little, well yeah, I mean I would illegally, like 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.280 most anime people watch things illegally. Um, But I don't 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.879 know if I got like bits and pieces of it, 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.119 so I don't remember, or maybe I just blacked out. 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.199 I don't know, you know, like covered my or like 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.960 just didn't fast forward through these parts. But yeah, yeah, sorry, 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:56.919 I'm meanna cut everyone body. Yeah, but within that scene, 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:01.560 you see like the bystander children in Horror, So it's 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:05.600 all it's acknowledging that this is a like a horrible thing, 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.040 but like also being like, yo, this is this movie 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.800 is about to go off. So anyway, the man who's 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:16.399 trying to help this little creepy man escape uh gets 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.400 shot up by the by the authorities, and the kid 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:23.480 seems to disappear. Uh. And onlooking we see Ryu and 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:26.719 k who we don't know their names at this time, 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:30.520 but they see the kid disappear. Now we were back 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.560 to this race. Uh, Tetsuo's gonna jink this guy in 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.959 the head jinks them, goes ahead, sees the same creepy 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.440 kid who was on the other side of town, and 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:43.800 he collides with him and there's a big explosion. Tetsuo's hurt. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:48.800 Uh and and then the government authorities come and not 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.080 only do they get to there's a second creepy baby 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.280 who comes who helps capture the first creepy baby and 0:20:55.440 --> 0:21:00.480 UH they also um, they also carry out Tetsuo with him, 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:05.080 and then they get arrested. And UH. In that time, 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.760 also in the scene, there's a moment where the kid 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:14.080 when UM, when I always forget the name of the babies, 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:19.119 but the first baby, uh Takahashi, Yes, Takashi, And I 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:23.359 remember Takashi because I remember being like, oh, there's no 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.160 way Takashi six nine got his name from this. But 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:32.040 Takashi sees uh the handler get killed, and he like 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:35.560 makes an earthquake happen that causes this water tower to fall. 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.600 And that's actually a nod to UH in the Mango 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:43.040 when Takashi first interacts with uh Kaneta and his gang 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:46.399 the second time, UH, he makes that same water tower 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:49.800 that's designed in the movie fall in the manga. But 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.200 then we flat fast forward there in the there caught 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:56.679 by the authorities. The authorities are like, these guys have 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:00.000 nothing to do. They weren't trying to get this baby. Uh, 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:04.680 and they get uh in Kaneta sees k I was like, oh, 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:06.680 she fine, I'm gonna help her to get out, helps 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.560 her get out and they all kind of leave together. 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:13.040 He's trying to do this weird uh sexist I saved you, 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:15.680 so you owe me some buns uh type of thing 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:20.000 and she and she and she's like thanks, no thanks, 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:23.200 I'm out and she rolls out, and then Kanetta leaves 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:27.200 with this group uh. And this in the in essentially 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:31.240 this is the event that leads towards the kind of 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:36.880 a big event of the movie. Tetsuo interacting with Takashi. 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.440 They discover that his brain patterns are or something they've 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:44.560 never seen before. Um. Very different than why his brain 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:48.280 patterns were different in the manga, But in the movie 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:52.720 it's it's through interacting and they they figure he might 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:57.280 become a strong esper, a psychic, like uh, this famed 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:01.280 Akita that they keep mentioning and you here it feels 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:04.880 like Akita's talking to Tetsuo win his head and he's 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:09.159 kind of kind of getting jittery. Uh. So this progresses 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:12.359 the story down uh these multiple storylines where we follow 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:16.040 Tetsuo in his interaction with the government, and then we 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:20.600 follow Kanetta who is trying to uh figure out what's 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:23.880 going on with Tetsuo because he's like, he comes back, 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:27.479 he leaves, he and then when he comes back and leaves, 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:31.280 he has this like he kind of freaks out because 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:34.840 uh and he kind of yells because he yells at 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:37.280 Kaneta because he feels like Canetta always feels like he 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:39.919